Barack Obama, and then Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. In the US, it is often associated with the American Democratic Party. Some liberal-leaning neoconservatives shifted towards liberal internationalism in the 2010s. Commonly cited examples of liberal interventionism include NATO's intervention in Bosnia and Herzegovina; the 1999 NATO bombing of Yugoslavia; British military intervention in the Sierra Leone Civil War; and the 2011 military intervention in Libya. According to historian Timothy Garton Ash, these are distinct because of liberal motivations and limited objectives, from other larger scale military interventions. Multilateral institutions, such as UNDP, UNICEF, WHO, and the UN General Assembly, have also been considered examples of liberal internationalism. According to Ikenberry and Yolchi Funabashi, one of the key pillars of liberal internationalism in practice is the democratic constitution and trade-based prosperity of Japan, which makes Japan a major stabilizer of liberal international order in the Asia-Pacific. See also City upon a Hill Cold War liberal Cosmopolitan democracy Empire of Liberty Humanitarian intervention Idealism (international relations) Internationalism (politics) Liberal hawk Liberal international order Liberal institutionalism Nation-building Neoconservatism Perpetual peace References Further reading Foreign policy Foreign relations of the United States International relations theory Internationalism